cdburners

From: liste_at_artware.qc.ca <(liste_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Thu Feb 7 15:27:03 2002

On 07-Feb-2002 Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> Throughout this thread, no one has made mention of the thing
> that makes automating thid process nearly impossible...
>
> ISO9660 CD's are limited to containing filenames of no more
> than 32 characters in length. At least, everytime I try to
> burn a CD, those web pages I've saved that have filenames
> that are longer result in a dialog box that requires me to
> either type an alternate name or accept the munged version
> that it creates itself. Doing this en masse would require
> quite a bit of attention to detail in the utility program.
>
> Comments?

It is also possible to burn other filesystems onto CD-Rs. I used to do
backups on to CD-R using the ext2 filesystem. Of course, the CD-Rs aren't
readable from as many systems, but you preserve file permissions etc.

-Philip
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 15:27:03 GMT